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DO THE THING

1. Fill out the form below for each of your characters!
2. Comment around and make plans with folks!
3. ???
4. Profit.

Do you have anything big planned this month that you'd like to share? Some plot noodles in your brain that you want to flesh out? Anything in between? Post your ideas here!

NAME: AgentKaz
CHARACTERS: Dr. Robotnik
TELL US ABOUT YOUR CHARACTERS: Dr. Robotnik is an evil eccentric mad scientist who hates that hedgehog. He's a faerie and he's been around a while but he's still convinced he's going to find a way back home somehow. He has to take over the earth before he takes over anything else after all! It's revenge! He of course has some weird memories stemming from canon updating to Sonic 2 a while back (and he's taken on the bald mustachio'd look to prove it) so he's a little weirder than he used to be, and he was pretty weird.
WHAT YOUR CHARACTER(S) WILL BE DOING: Still hanging around, still working on tons of projects. He likes to bury himself in his work but he still has to come out every now and then. Like when he does his radio show or hangs out in the rest of Amusement Mile.
SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: He hates friends but he still keeps collecting "acquaintances" somehow. He could always use some more! Also people to work with reluctantly (he likes to work alone but maybe SOME things require some "assistance.") More fourth-related stuff maybe! Also he likes to yell at people, so that always works.
ANYTHING ELSE: pretend i put the funniest gif in the world right here

NAME: Meowzy
CHARACTERS: Otto Octavius (

sciencesquid), Steven Grant (

summonthesuit)
TELL US ABOUT YOUR CHARACTERS:
Otto is a physicist, former supervillain, tragic widower with massive Dad vibes! He's a Faerie living in Hill House and got a job at Liewen Labs, Bavan Branch. Will be taking on Physics class at the school too. He's technically background tech support for W.E.B., but I'm not doing a whole lot with that because of my second character.
Steven is a pathetic meow meow- I mean a beautiful British nerd who comes with a love for history, a superhero alter ego (Mr. Knight) and a CW for Hollywood DID. Also, he's vegan! He's living at the 38-8 and got a job working the register at some unspecified store, so he can just abandon that for something nicer whenever. He's also a mentor figure within W.E.B., an actual active one, but preserving his secret identity isn't something he cares about. There's only one aggressively British Neph with distinct wings like that in Ryslig.

WHAT YOUR CHARACTER(S) WILL BE DOING:
Steven will be coming back from the dead when the fog rolls in, and shortly after find out that Marc Spector is no longer in Ryslig. I've got an initial draft for a log with several prompts all written up and ready to go, but I might not post it until the 9th because ~I'm going to Disneyland, babeeeyyy!~ Either way, the prompts encompass several locations, so it won't be hard to run into him.
Otto is the one I've got no real specific plans for. We'll see where this month takes him!

SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:
Steven's gotten a bit jostled by last month's event and Marc's departure (okay, very jostled), so he might need some friendly support. But that said, I'm always up for conflict and confrontation too. Don't go easy on him!
Otto, I feel, just needs to branch out his CR even more. Meet some new people, or run into folks he hasn't seen in a while.

ANYTHING ELSE:

NAME: trace
CHARACTERS: xiao xingchen (the untamed)

TELL US ABOUT YOUR CHARACTERS:

some backstory cliffnotes in three handy bullet-points

personality-wise, he's one of those 'can't refrain from helping someone who seems to need help' sorts, a very warm and outgoing person by nature. he does have kind of a 'stereotypical kind do-gooder' outward presentation that he tends to keep people at arm's length with at first (it's pretty much all he had ever known before ryslig, but since arriving here he has made great leaps in allowing himself to be a person instead of a daozhang)

underneath all that, though, he's a fiercely loyal and stubborn friend with every ounce of terrible dad-humor you'd expect from a reformed mountain yokel.

here in ryslig, he's a werewolf (werefox, really), and he lives in a cottage in the woods above lake minska.

he has been here for a little over two years now, and though he kind of let himself get insular and cozy for a while in late 2021/early 2022 after some particularly fucky events early last year sharply narrowed the scope of his long-term aspirations, he's once again starting to get that proactive itch to Fix This Overarching Bad Situation Somehow, so he'll probably be out and around a lot more once he (and I) can nail down exactly what direction to go with it.

WHAT YOUR CHARACTER(S) WILL BE DOING:

frequent haunts — apart from his home and his husband's estate (lotus pier, at the south end of lake minska), he also spends a lot of time volunteering at bavan general hospital (generally doing whatever nursing-adjacent tasks he can with experience in field medicine but no degree), in exchange for a small but steady supply of expired/non-medically-viable blood for said husband to drink.

current status — so he lost one of his few close cr early last month, which has put him in a less-than-stellar mental place currently (not that he tends to let on), which in turn has lit that Do Something Proactive And Meaningful drive in him so he can stop feeling so impotent re: being able to make a legitimately meaningful positive impact in the lives of others.

he should have a network post coming up re: a few things, but mostly asking about the sea of stars. i meant to do it last month but things got away from me.

in a more long-term sense, i think he's going to be feeling out what sort of monster support systems actually exist and working toward maybe setting up (or helping with, if one already exists) a system that tries to maximize the number of monsters fed per civilian death - a larger-scale version of what he, runyu, and jiang cheng had worked out before runyu left (runyu was fae and would get the person's energy, then jc would get the blood, then xingchen would get the meat). i feel like he has a lot of questions re: the monster types he has less experience with before he can figure out how to approach any sort of system-building, though, which will probably be more network posts along the way. gotta love network posts.

SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:

he had a small but diverse CR pool for a while, but basically everyone aside from jiang cheng and runyu is gone now, so my obligatory 'give me anything' type answer is just that i really want him to start making connections with others in general again, so that he can't keep numbing his thoughts with whatever work or training he can throw himself into.

(also, this will be more like a menu of thread possibilities than an actual wishlist, but w/e)

if anyone would want in on the above monster support system project once it starts to come together, he isn't proprietary about it and would love to make it a team effort with anyone who believes in the value of minimizing harm to the native residents of the peninsula.
— (i don't think that he'll actually put out a call for help even once he gets it started, because he's kind of just not a person who defaults to passing work off onto others when he can shoulder it himself, but he (and i, oocly) would definitely welcome others into the efforts.)

i really, really would love to see him make a friend. i laugh at how low that bar is set, but god like. he has been surface-level friendly and even joked a little with so, so many people, but it never quite seems to break through to a layer where they actually have serious talks about genuine things, or form any kind of trust deeper than the trust you give someone you ambiently know is a decent person. i've been letting it slide because at least he still had runyu, but now the friend count is zero (jc and lanzhu don't count) and i'm not gonna let this fool self-isolate.

he's one of the many many people here who could teach someone sword combat, or possibly effective meditation practices if that's somehow of interest.

does your character need help with something? literally even the stupidest little tasks? Let Xingchen Help You. he's too helpful for his own good and has almost definitely been told to fuck off and mind his own business at least a not-insignificant number of times in his life.

characters who frequent the woods between bavan and lake minska (or even happen to go out there one single time) might encounter him in his travel form (a waist-height jiuweihu fox), where he can help them get un-lost or just generally be a large fluffy acquaintance. i also wouldn't be opposed to them helping him in some way, like if he got his leg caught in a trap or something like that.

ANYTHING ELSE: as an ooc note, i'm trying to regain my footing after two years of grad school ate my life, so most of my plans are still firming up. also, i discovered while setting up a new thread-tracking system this evening that at least four of you tagged me in late july/early august and i didn't get the notifs - so if i tag our super old thread and you'd rather just drop it, that's totally fine.

re: trigger warnings — xingchen definitely comes with some of those in an overarching sense including eye gore(?) (his blindness is due to physically... not having eyes) and mentions of suicide. however, it's super unlikely that either of those will probably come up (and if they do, there would be ample warning or pre-plotting), since he has bandaging over his eyeholes and tends not to talk about the more concerning parts of his pre-ryslig past unless directly asked.

and now, a parting gif(t).

NAME: Sora | Sonicsora
CHARACTERS: Tawna Bandicoot

swashgrappling, Peter Parker

heyunderoos and Elizabeth Dewitt

escapedbird
TELL US ABOUT YOUR CHARACTERS:

Tawna Bandicoot - Tawna is an adventurer, former mutant bandicoot, who loves swordplay, grappling hooks, crafts, leaping into danger, and pretending she's too cool for everything. In reality, she's pretty damn soft-hearted and trying to keep everyone at arm's length to avoid really being hurt again. She's softened in ryslig, beginning to horde find people she actually cares about.

Peter Parker - Peter is a eighteen-year-old teenager superhero. He's Spider-Man! He's lived through some wild shit in his own way. Peter is naturally anxious, a little dorky, and eager to help people around him. He takes far too much responsibility on his shoulders and over-extends himself. One day he'll learn to relax. He is one of the founding members of W.E.B.

Elizabeth Dewitt - A nineteen year old whose been kidnapped to another dimension before! Elizabeth comes from the near end of Bioshock Infinite. She's a bit feral at the moment due to some wild shit that has happened to her.

Once Elizabeth has calmed down, she'll genuinely be very friendly, chatty, eager to learn, and intrigued by the world around her. She loves literature, sewing, dancing, singing, lockpicking, reading, and decoding ciphers. She is a woman of many talents due to growing up in near isolation. At the moment she craves Murder. She's trying to learn more about the gods to try and start some shit if she can.

WHAT YOUR CHARACTER(S) WILL BE DOING:

Tawna is leading the craft club. She has the occasional club meetings. She is working with Norman Osborn to make craft kits for FEAST (The soup kitchen). Tawna honestly is just Vibing. She will host a craft club meeting sometime this month.

Peter himself has "Relatively" settled into Ryslig. He's been patrolling as Spider-Man around Bavan, helping people where he can. Peter has gotten W.E.B (previously known as Young Avengers) off of the ground. He leads it with Chiaki Nanami (still the first one, but now a tree!), Steven Grant (sad man)

After the wastelands event, he'll be taking it a little easier than usual. He might be getting up to more teenager level shenanigans.

Elizabeth is learning about the local gods, probably lingering at the local library. She is absorbing as much of the local culture as she can.

SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: As I always say, genuinely everything.

Tawna always needs more adult friends. More generally, I was thinking of Tawna gathering her very diverse friend group together to cause a little chaos in some regard. Bar crawl gone horribly wrong or some shit.

For Elizabeth, I'm looking for her to interact with 4th and fog followers to get their perspectives. I'd like to have her pledge to Elias in the near future.

I'd like Peter to make more teenage friends if possible, so he has not super heroic shenanigans going on in his life. I'm also down for people to talk to Spidey or Peter about W.E.B.

ANYTHING ELSE:

Edited 2022-09-03 15:13 (UTC)

Fog Brunch will be at Ragnarok this month! Gabe is hosting along with Horatio(?) and will likely have a desire to discuss Haftesal with the other foggies

Triffany would love to be part of the support network! She eats flesh and so much else of the human goes to waste. Otherwise her big project is to establish the field of archeology in Ryslig and study its history.

She's the type to befriend jerks so maybe there's a chance of them becoming friends.

yes…YES

Harry debuted his first art installation! Ft mind control. Come remember your saddest memory and cry with him.

"but basically everyone aside from jiang cheng and runyu is gone now,"

this was meant to say jiang cheng and lanzhu, since runyu is unfortunately gone too

NAME:
Stan/Wick or Stanwick

CHARACTERS:
this wretched man

TELL US ABOUT YOUR CHARACTERS:
A cop, who gave himself amnesia in hopes it would make him less of a shambling horror of a human being. He’s relentlessly persistent about unraveling people to satisfy his curiosity. You have secrets? He will pester them out of you. He will also cry on you.

Harry is now a diehard foggie and he’s interested in talking philosophy and appearing to be much less of an extremist than he is. He’s a peculiar mix of manipulative and genuinely very vulnerable. He’s prone to crying, self hating spirals, and is generally just hounded nonstop by the furies in his head.

WHAT YOUR CHARACTER(S) WILL BE DOING:
Stuff in the wasteland has left him wildly unstable and his cop partner is in a (hiatus) coma. Harry is in a manic state, trying to hold it together.

SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:
He's very focused on the Fog and making her proud. To that end you might see him around Haftesal, chatting up some of his contacts. It’s getting harder for him to do this, his empathy for these humans is very strained and without empathy to balance out his charming sleaze…it’s just sleaze.

He’s always looking to convert other monsters to her cause, to discuss his philosophy, art, and share in the beauty of monsterhood with folks. First he has to convince them that monsterhood is beautiful, of course.

With all the strain happening in his brain he'll probably be crying a lot in public too. Harry is inherently very sympathetic, he’s a guy who’s clearly Going Through It at any time. If you have a Good Samaritan who’d offer a helping hand. He will gladly take it. Or bite it. Or both.

All in all next month may end up being really really harsh on him so I’d like to expand his CR while he’s as functional as possible. Despite his problems he is good at coaxing people into having fun with him. He likes art, sports. He really can’t hang around bars though and that makes it a bit harder for him to socialize.

ANYTHING ELSE:
Harry is from a very heavy canon, please peep his opt outs, opt ins and CWs here.

Edited 2022-09-03 23:56 (UTC)

NAME: Nara
CHARACTERS: Triffany Lottablog
TELL US ABOUT YOUR CHARACTERS: A middled aged Minnesotan Muppet archeologist with a cheery disposition and a tendency to casually drop an existential crisis in the middle of a conversation. She volunteers at the Bavan historical society and is aligned with the Fourth just for his powers to get into locked chambers and explore.

She was mortally wounded by The Handler last month and mercy eaten by Black Hat, so there's also that she's dealing with.
WHAT YOUR CHARACTER(S) WILL BE DOING: The past month has motivated Triffany into doing something meaningful with her time here. She's dedicated to opening a college of archeology and studying the old languages and religions, and now she's gained some new respect for the Haftesal scientists for trying to make a difference in the world.

She's going back to dig sites and wants to retute to thr wastelands, but right now she's worried that she's forgotten something after her death. She hasn't, but she needs some calming down to do.
SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: She's gotten a nice dose of anti-nihilism from Faramir recently, so anyone who wants to talk about their destiny or their goals in Ryslig would be fun! She also wants to talk about her husband to make sure she hasn't forgotten anything.
ANYTHING ELSE:

I can't believe how well the DLC compliments her time in Ryslig.

NAME: Hal
CHARACTERS: Abigail Hobbs
TELL US ABOUT YOUR CHARACTERS: Introverted, observant, vulnerable girl with daddy issues, unsure where she fits on the killer to victim scale.

WHAT YOUR CHARACTER(S) WILL BE DOING:
Abigail finally died here for the first time, after being here nearly two years!
It's made her feel very vulnerable and she'll be doing whatever she can to shake that off. Unfortunately for her that she's still switching between human and shade for another couple of weeks, and while she's going to make the most of having a solid form, I'm more than happy for her vulnerable state to be taken advantage of. Following all this, she's finally going to make it to level 2 with the Fog, although over the last few months her opinion of what the Fog supposedly loving her actually means has changed a great deal. She lives at the Faros Academy, works as Javert's personal assistant, and spends her free time doing botanical sketches in the public parks in Bavan, hanging around coffee shops, and honing her hunting skills. She also volunteers as a butcher at the soup kitchen. She inherited Tarkin's hunting cabin and spends a fair amount of her time there. Her eternal struggle is with seeing herself as both a killer and a victim, and she's leaning hard into embracing her identity as a monster as a way to ignore the guilt she has about her involvement in her father's crimes back in her own world, though being temporarily human at the moment has swung her back to a victim mentality that she loathes.

SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: Friends, parental figures, good and bad influences, romance, enemies, you name it - but in particular friends near her own age, other Fog followers, and people with more of a darker moral compass to influence her.

ANYTHING ELSE: Warnings for murder and cannibalism in Abigail's backstory. And I'm in GMT so my tags aren't always the fastest.

pumpkins

they should get pumpkins together

NAME: Mari
CHARACTERS: Saint-Germain
TELL US ABOUT YOUR CHARACTERS: Arachne. Immortal alchemist devoted to REVOLUTION in the name of LIBERATING MANKIND FROM ALL CONTROL. Goal-oriented and incapable of reading the room; sometimes very smart and sometimes very stupid. Prefers to research, observe, and experiment before taking decisive action. The mom friend; she's over a thousand years old, so everybody's the Kids These Days. Killed a bunch of people back home and is still keeping count.
WHAT YOUR CHARACTER(S) WILL BE DOING: Continuing her research into horror tropes. Heading out with the objective of "today I socialize to obtain currency from Mana the Coin Witch" but having no idea how to do so. Helping her girlfriend Cagliostro read an extremely important historical document aloud on the network. Joining the Lighthouse and spinning a Big Web inside of it. Potentially discovering caffeine gives spiders the brain scramblies. Researching Rystrology (please click this link i worked REALLY HARD).
SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: I'd like Saint-Germain to get roped into doing things, instead of being the instigator! She's hit on the idea that interacting with others is a way to resist Ryslig's oppression while she investigates how to make it Stop Outright....which means if you invite her to come do something fun, her ideals PREVENT HER FROM REFUSING. (Though not from setting a boundary or two.) Abuse this. Please.
ANYTHING ELSE:

yes madam, you do have that.

yes that would be super cute

NAME: Lu
CHARACTERS: Michael
TELL US ABOUT YOUR CHARACTERS: Michael is a demon from Hell, but like, he's cool about it!
WHAT YOUR CHARACTER(S) WILL BE DOING: His werewolf changes are going to start this month, by which I mean that I'm just doing them all at once because I want to. So I guess he's going to be in a Lot Of Pain, and then he's going to be getting used to being a Long Boi (he is a weasel now)
SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: Some help with his transformation would probably be nice! Other than that, he's still pretty new, so I'm continuing to just settle in and try to get him some friends and other connections.

pspspsps harry

so ready for Gabe to chase Harry around with a huge mallet and pick him up and put salt on him

Edited 2022-09-03 23:43 (UTC)

hello hello Harry is so good at roping principled people into having fun with him how does Saint-Germain feel about karaoke

also I LOVE rystrology thank you so much

reaches for Steven

NAME: Ashley
CHARACTERS: Riley Williams, Jodariel
TELL US ABOUT YOUR CHARACTERS: let's mostly copypaste from past ones
Riley is a former cheerleader who has the tendency to snap and murder people. She keeps a sunny smile on until it gets to be too much, which it does here! A lot!! She's come leaps and bounds in the last year and a half in Ryslig on actually expressing herself instead of hiding behind a happy mask, but she's very maladjusted due to neglect and bad coping mechanisms. Also she's from a musical and has the ability to accidentally turn any scene into a musical. Oops.

Jodariel is a big buff lady (seven feet tall) formerly with horns. She's quiet and has eternal resting bitch face, giving her an intimidating air, but she's incredibly mom-shaped. A former soldier, she was exiled into a purgatory-like place called the Downside and spent sixteen years of her life surviving there. She's cynical but practical. Also she can't read because literacy is outlawed in her fucked up dystopian society. It makes using text to speech and speech to text on the network really haphazard.

WHAT YOUR CHARACTER(S) WILL BE DOING: UNHELPFULLY I HAVE NO IDEA. Mostly going through their motions because I have been very checked out as of late and am trying to dig myself back into the game. SO in general-
Riley works at Poundmates, the Persephone Orphanage, Nai'a Nights, and the Juno Steele Detective Agency. Girl keeps herself very busy. She lives at the 38-8 apartments but she's going to be spending more time at Giorno's mansion as of late.
Jodariel works at the Lucky 38 and Persephone Orphanage. She spends most of her time caring for the children there, as that's her greatest passion. She lives in the Orphanage basement, to be close to the kids.
SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: I'd like to have both of them get settled back in with their CR. Check back in with folks, handwave some things (see below). I don't necessarily have any PLANS because I'm mostly getting my feet back under me again, but basically if we have CR please check in! I'd like to get Jodariel some more adult friends as well.
ANYTHING ELSE: SO I haven't been around much and I'd like to fix that! With that comes some general notes. I have a large backlog of threads that I'm putting on the backburner for now, with some exceptions. If you recall a thread we were working on that you want me to take another look at to continue, please let me know! Otherwise, if you would like to handwave, also please let me know!

Relatedly, I recently did a huge plurk cut and may continue to do so. I want to shift my plotting to posts like this and PMs and save plurk more for personal or less structured stuff, at least for the time being. If you're comfortable plotting on Discord, we can also do so there!

like a slug

NAME: Ashu.
CHARACTERS: Blues aka Proto Man (This journal!)
TELL US ABOUT YOUR CHARACTERS: Blues is a quiet loner who keeps to himself, or he was until he got canon updated. Now he's a sad loner who tries to keep to himself, but can't help but want to help people it's in his nature.
WHAT YOUR CHARACTER(S) WILL BE DOING: Aside from taking horrible care of himself? Blues currently works as janitorial staff at the Lucky, volunteers at the soup kitchen and partakes in W.E.B. business. Which is a lot that he does to keep himself from dwelling on a bad thing he did months ago, of which he still feels bad. (He killed and ate a kid, if anyone cares to know.) ALSO! His "birthday" is this month, he might actually do something for it he might not.
SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: He lacks his emotional support robot (aka Tempo/Quake Woman) so maybe someone he could finally trust to talk to about his feels about the whole... Situation here? Of course friends and that kind of thing, heck enemies or people he can butt heads with would be cool too. Maybe someone other than Nanami knowing about his kid-murdering frenzy would be cool too.
ANYTHING ELSE:

rotating milves in my mind........i think (???) the most CR we have is with Lusamine and Jodariel, and i would like to ask if it is safe to handwave that they had a lovely awkward date after a lovely awkward talk about etiquette or whatever at the gala

(obligatory sidenote: i would be down to continue any of our threads if that's something you want to do, but not necessary if you'd prefer a clean slate!)

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